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Writer Checker: How to Check a Writer's Work

Learn how to check a writer's work for grammar, spelling, AI, factual accuracy, SEO, readability, and plagiarism with different writer checker tools.

Checking a writer’s work is about more than just catching typos. It’s about publishing content that engages readers, ranks well on search engines, and protects your brand’s reputation. 

Now, don’t worry — this doesn’t mean you need to spend hours picking through every word with a fine-tooth comb. With the right tools by your side, creating and optimizing high-quality content at scale has never been easier.

From assessing grammar and readability to verifying accuracy and originality, here are some key AI writer checker tools to help you supercharge your content strategy.

Key Takeaways (TL;DR)

1. Detect AI-Generated Content

First things first: artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful tool if it’s used transparently as an assistant to help writers create the kind of helpful, people-first content that Google and readers are looking for.

However, one of the problems with AI-generated content is that it's often low-quality. Not only does AI struggle to produce unique content, but AI hallucinations and factual errors are real issues, and publishing them can hurt both your reputation and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Not to mention that Google can penalize AI content if it doesn’t meet their standards.

Fortunately, a tool like Originality.ai’s AI Checker can help you:

  • Quickly identify the likelihood of AI-generated text with exceptionally high accuracy
  • Pinpoint potential AI-written sections
  • Feel confident that writers are submitting their own, original work

If you’re worried about false positives, there’s a tool that can help there too. 

Originality.ai’s Chrome Extension enables you to watch a writer work from start to finish so you can verify that their work is truly their own, and not just copy-and-pasted from ChatGPT or other generative AI tools.

Plus, you can also use the extension to check a writer’s work for readability and grammar, and the next item on our list — plagiarism.

2. Ensure Originality and Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism raises several concerns including copyright infringement. Then, having duplicate content on your website can also hurt your search engine rankings 

Adding a plagiarism detector can be an excellent addition to your writer-checking routine. For example, with Originality.ai’s Plagiarism Checker, you can:

  • Learn the likelihood of content containing plagiarized or matching text
  • Identify the potentially plagiarized phrases in question
  • Verify the results with direct links to the sources

With the right plagiarism detector, all it takes is the click of a button to check the originality of writers’ content. Then, a writer or editor can review any highlights to ensure content is unique and sourced properly before publication.

3. Verify Facts and Accuracy

Considering the consequences of publishing incorrect information, fact-checking content is important and a must. Besides, with innovative tools, you can streamline the process. 

For example, Originality.ai’s Fact Checker enables you to automate the verification process. 

For each fact, the tool gives you:

  • A “Potentially True” or “Potentially False” fact status
  • An explanation for the status
  • Links to current sources so you can verify things on your own

Basically, a good fact-checking tool does the research for you, saving you a ton of time during the editing stage. Then, you can review the content with sources to check the information and address any content-quality issues.

4. Check for Grammar and Spelling

Checking a writer’s work may not be just about catching typos, but it's still an important part of the process. If you’ve ever run across low-quality blog posts online, you already know that content riddled with poor grammar and spelling is often awkward to read.

Even if you’re the number one expert in your industry on paper, potential clients may question whether you truly know your stuff if they can’t understand your writing. 

So, if you have yet to add a grammar checker to your content tools, now’s the time to start.

For example, with Originality.ai’s Grammar Checker, you can:

  • Find common spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes
  • Fix issues with one click
  • Access and integrate a Grammar and Spelling API into your apps

Running content through a tool like Originality.ai’s Grammar Checker helps ensure your content is clear and concise before hitting publish. 

However, a grammatically correct piece alone won’t necessarily keep your readers engaged — you need to make sure they can understand it too.

5. Assess Readability

Not everyone is at the same reading level. For example, a doctor would likely have a much easier time reading an article full of complex medical terminology than the average person (so when publishing content it’s important to keep in mind your target audience). 

Simply put, content that’s hard to read doesn’t get read (which could impact bounce rates). It can therefore affect some key performance and engagement metrics, including:

To effectively reach your audience, then, you must consider their reading level, which is where readability formulas come in handy. A readability formula can help you determine the reading level of your content. Even better, a readability checker can check the readability of a text for you.

For example, with Originality.ai’s Readability Checker, all you need to do is enter your text to get information about:

  • Readability scores from the most common readability formulas, like the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease
  • Syllable counts, as shorter, less complex words and sentences with plain language are often easier to understand
  • Tips on where you can improve the clarity of content

When you tailor content to your audience’s reading level, you can feel confident that they can both read and understand your message. 

6. Optimize Content for Better Performance

Then, to help you get to the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs), you need a content optimization tool.

A content optimizer can help take a writer’s work to the next level by making SEO suggestions to improve its SERP rankings. 

The problem with the average optimization tool is that it often rewards keyword stuffing

Fortunately, this isn’t the case with Originality.ai’s Content Optimizer

The Originality.ai Content Optimizer is a breakthrough predictive SEO tool that rewards only genuine content improvements. It even has the most accurate correlation between predicted and actual rankings, which you can learn more about in our content optimization accuracy study.

So, what does it do, exactly? With Originality.ai’s Content Optimizer, you can:

  • Find out the number of words, headings, and paragraphs a writer’s content needs for the best results
  • Get advice from the “Suggestions” sections to improve content quality, including what to include, change, and remove from the text
  • Competitor rankings for your keyword and their content scores

Note that the tool also lists potential keywords to include in the text, which can be helpful (however, stuffing keywords won’t improve your Originality.ai Content Optimization score). 

Yes, it can take some extra work to make the kinds of changes that the tool recommends. However, these meaningful changes help to drive predictably better search engine rankings.

7. Conduct a Manual Review

Although Originality.ai’s writer checkers for AI detection, plagiarism checking, fact-checking, grammar checking, readability, and content optimization are highly accurate and reliable, a manual review of a writer’s work is still critical before publishing.

Keeping a human in the loop can help to incorporate each writer checker step cohesively so that your content stays aligned with brand voice guidelines and reads naturally.

It's best practice to support the expertise of your team with a suite of editing and publishing tools.

All Your Writer Checkers in One Place

Originality.ai offers the writer checker tools you need to review the quality of a writer’s work and help it rank on the SERPs from AI checking to predictive SEO, and grammar review.

You can even access four of them in the Chrome extension, making it easy to perform checks right in your browser.

Now, what are you waiting for? Sign up for access to Originality.ai’s suite of industry-leading tools, and start publishing with confidence today!

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Jess Sawyer

Jess Sawyer

Jess Sawyer is a seasoned writer and content marketing expert with a passion for crafting engaging and SEO-optimized content. With several years of experience in the digital marketing, Jess has honed her skills in creating content that not only captivates audiences but also ranks high on search engine results.

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